In the long running legal dispute between cleaning machine manufacturers Tennant and Kärcher, the Stuttgart Regional Court - which is local to the Kärcher HQ - has ruled that advertising claims by Tennant regarding its ec-H2O technology are misleading.

The basis of the lawsuits brought in Germany, Belgium and the UK is a number of

A bankrupt inventor in the UK committed suicide without realising the hand dryer he had invented had been hailed the world's best.

Peter Williams, the inventor of the Vortex hand dryer - now marketed by Savortex - was struggling with heavy debts and died months before his device was judged by Guinness World Records to be the world's most energy

Telecom scams are a growing threat to businesses, with criminals deploying ever more sneaky tools and tactics. Hartley Milner looks at some tricks of the fraudster’s furtive trade and how to avoid falling victim to them.

The cold-caller’s patter went something like this… “Am I speaking to Mr Miller?” “Well,